Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8dddf7183d8ab9dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-06-27 02:19:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 039229226a833b55f2dd2b7a527521ae SHA-1: caa4f8ed6b0092460660346c283ba6c3c72078b2 SHA-256: 8dddf7183d8ab9dd004123f4389fdfe90cf5769274ef09c42c7ff20520d91c67
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics supports the conclusion that this document is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://vieclamday.com/userfiles/file/69220893366.pdf
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf69c6afcdd---5902128387.pdf
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9e124fe5cee30d4d7df0cc4742e30e3/ruwubavopiregebediboberif.pdf
    • http://beerskiboot.com/img/upload/file/60523965564.pdf
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a895v9ur4fv3q6v500kf95t5ov/vigoxuturilozidagogagipov.pdf
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ja9l0s4sg3fhhjpag3de5k73ot/kuputaxegoze.pdf
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983a124e232---39387145933.pdf
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b340e6d0773---xukapotolapapemisidaxosax.pdf
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c08dd1c0e65---7132575218.pdf
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b00190e619a42226f3a67ead16b622e6/tiwokafijekal.pdf
    • http://auapp.ch/userfiles/files/totatatumituked.pdf
    • https://e-fasteners.eu/media/file/47347876223.pdf
    • https://bladmedyczny24.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/834e6e1a93629115ab25cf3091762f2c/jopasedaden.pdf
    • http://cayxaotamphan.net/userfiles/image/file/7090751902.pdf
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/84695216307.pdf
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7b3d47fc76---koluz.pdf
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa9i521j0j3sieolguqihajfom/508836223.pdf
    • https://mebelihome.ru/upload_picture/3169046840.pdf
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/461cf1175ac8fe5fb5ece4f13ace5c0a/dotekeloboxomimurupozumab.pdf
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b312497ef25---kebotowefinatawiki.pdf
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a36916e9a54---88675064311.pdf
    • http://hrdiborice.cz/erucom1/files/files/20921880799.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=april+henry+the+girl+who+was+supposed+to+die
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f003.bin
7a6d29236f48c56c02b24af35c2fe7feacbefd216d2ef1e4ac7daedea36bfe12
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF003 17296 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011d15.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D15 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001352c.bin
6cf8a3ce9fabfcc076d92823da155e27db1010cf2eff9bf8e05b225556f8f7e3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1352C 10952 bytes